'I should be very glad to be near Miss Emma of course, and always am.' 'That's well,' said Mr Haredale.

'That is all I had to say.

You are anxious to go.

Don't let me detain you.' Dolly didn't let him, nor did she wait for him to try, for the words had no sooner passed his lips than she was out of the room, out of the house, and in the fields again.
The first thing to be done, of course, when she came to herself and considered what a flurry she had been in, was to cry afresh; and the next thing, when she reflected how well she had got over it, was to laugh heartily.

The tears once banished gave place to the smiles, and at last Dolly laughed so much that she was fain to lean against a tree, and give vent to her exultation.